Taras Guryev

Taras Nikolaeyvich Guryev (1965-2008) was a Russian-American criminal who was associated with the Faustin crime family.

Biography
Taras Nikolayevich Guryev was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1965, and he emigrated to the United States during the 1980s. Guryev settled in New York City, and he became a Russian Mafia-associated loan shark under Mikhail Faustin. In 2008, Guryev had The Lost MC president Johnny Klebitz kidnap Roman Bellic in exchange for absolving his girlfriend, Ashley Butler, from her debts taken from the Bratva. Guryev held Bellic in a warehouse off Lompoc Avenue in Port Morris, The Bronx, until Niko Bellic single-handedly assaulted the warehouse. Guryev and several of his henchmen were gunned down in the ensuing shootout.